Black children are being disproportionately separated from their families. The best way...
, that the forcible separation of children from their parents is a source of significant and lifelong trauma, regardless of how long the separation lasts. Beyond this initial trauma, children who spend time in foster care are at risk for a host of adverse outcomes including poverty, houselessness, unemployment, developmental delays, mental health disorders, substance use disorders and incarceration.
Josie Pickens is Program Director of the upEND Movement. Alan Dettlaff is the Maconda Brown Endowed Dean’s Chair of the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston.
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